Sydney served up what you might expect - beautiful temperatures and beaches. Although perhaps we shouldn't take that for granted as we were told it was the first nice day they'd had in six months - I assume that is all relative though.
We also took in a museum. I hadn't previously realised that transportation of convicts was not a new thing when we decided to colonise Australia - we'd been doing transportation to America for a while apparently (that was sadly interrupted when the Americans decided they didn't really want us any more). I also didn't realise that the convicts effectively became indentured labour - indentured to the free inhabitants of Australia, which often was just the spouse of the convict in question.
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